Garry Wills, a prolific author and Pulitzer prize-winner on America's political and cultural history, has written a guest column, "The day the Enlightenment went out" (Nov. 4), for the venerable New York Times. In his polemic, Wills declares that the reelection of US President George W. Bush was due largely to a big turnout of theologically conservative Christian voters who are not, in his word, "enlightened." As the primary example of this Christian bloc's "unenlightenment," a lamenting Wells cites the creation/evolution issue: "many more Americans believe in the Virgin Birth than in Darwin's theory of evolution."In the second paragraph of...